1ºAfter hurricanes, cyclines and tropical storms the power can be off for days. When the storm moves away it's like the storm takes any breeze with it. Nothing makes you feel comfortable. There's no ice for drinks, no petrol for a generator. You may have batteries for a little fan but they only last a few hours and fans just blow heat around. Best thing I know is a damp towel on your head, neck or chest or all 3. You rinse and wring them out as needed. Protect bedding or furniture. A lounge chair with a damp sheet may feel cooler. It's the evaporative cooling that makes it work. A mister during the day may help.
Don't forget to provide water for wildlife. Put it in the shade or change often so it doesn't get hot. They like mist too.
2ºScott Duckworth - 6th largest world economy. And you may be reading the wrong articles.
The grid is being stressed by heat we’ve never experienced before. That heat is due to climate change, something we are trying to address while deniers continue to fight us about it. Seriously, why is it a problem to end up with a cleaner, better-functioning world, even if ya’ll are right about this climate change thingy and it’s not happening/permanent/human-caused? If we still make all these changes - reduce reliance on fossil fuels and plastics and petroleum in general, reduce carbon in the atmosphere, etc - and the world is better, though not cooler or less atmospherically violent, why is that a bad thing?
3ºThe best way not to sleep in the heat in the first place is not to have restrictions on your air conditioner in blue states. The best way to not have restrictions on your air conditioner in blue states is to NOT rely on energy from foreign countries who hate us when there is enough to power the entire world for a century here in the United States (and that making energy costs ridiculously higher than they should be).
November cannot get here fast enough! The adults will start chipping away at this nonsense when they are back in charge in January.

4ºIf you think the 1930s drought that caused The Dust Bowl was rough, new research looking at tree rings in the Rocky Mountains has news for you: Things can get much worse in the West
In fact the worst drought of this century barely makes the top 10 of a study that extended Utah's climate record back to the year 1429.
With sandpaper and microscopes, Brigham Young University professor Matthew Bekker analyzed rings from drought-sensitive tree species. He found several types of scenarios that could make life uncomfortable in what is now the nation's third-fastest-growing state:
Long droughts: The year 1703 kicked off 16 years in a row with below average stream flow.
Intense droughts: The Weber River flowed at just 13 percent of normal in 1580 and dropped below 20 percent in three other periods.
Consecutive worst-case scenarios: The most severe drought in the record began in 1492, and four of the five worst droughts all happened during Christopher Columbus' lifetime.
"We're conservatively estimating the severity of these droughts that hit before the modern record, and we still see some that are kind of scary if they were to happen again," said Bekker, a geography professor at BYU. "We would really have to change the way we do things here."
5ºCraig McKay Of course, those are the same folks least likely to be able to afford an air conditioner. The 18 states who require the most assistance, federal and state benefits, and the majority of poorest states nearly all red southern states? The largest contributors (those states who contribute more than they take) are all blue (CA, NY, MA, etc) AMERICA’S POOREST STATES
50. Mississippi – Median household income: $39,680 Poverty rate: 21.5%
49. West Virginia – Median household income: $41,059 Poverty rate: 18.3%
48. Arkansas – Median household income: $41,262 Poverty rate: 18.9%
47. Alabama – Median household income: $42,830 Poverty rate: 19.3%
46. Kentucky – Median household income: $42,958 Poverty rate: 19.1%
45. Tennessee – Median household income: $44,361 Poverty rate: 18.3%
44. Louisiana – Median household income: $44,555 Poverty rate: 19.8%
43. New Mexico – Median household income: $44,803 Poverty rate: 21.3%
42. South Carolina – Median household income: $45,238 Poverty rate: 18.0%
41. Montana – Median household income: $46,328 Poverty rate: 15.4%
40. North Carolina – Median household income: $46,556 Poverty rate: 17.2%
39. Florida – Median household income: $47,463 Poverty rate: 16.5%
38. Oklahoma – Median household income: $47,529 Poverty rate: 16.6%
37. Idaho – Median household income: $47,861 Poverty rate: 14.8%
36. Missouri – Median household income: $48,363 Poverty rate: 15.5%
35. Ohio – Median household income: $49,308 Poverty rate: 15.8%
34. Georgia – Median household income: $49,321 Poverty rate: 18.3%
33. Indiana – Median household income: $49,446 Poverty rate: 15.2%
32. Maine – Median household income: $49,462 Poverty rate: 14.1%